A Voice for Princess
8 best books like A Voice for Princess (John Morressy): Summer of Night, Diary of a Madman and Other Stories, Rickshaw Boy, The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun, Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems, The Selected Poems, Teahouse, The Witcher Boxed Set: Blood of Elves, The Time of Contempt, Baptism of Fire
| Author | Dan Simmons |
| ISBN | 0446362662 |
It's the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, and five 12-year old boys are forming the bonds that a lifetime of changes will never erase. But then a dark cloud threatens the bright promise of summer vacation: on the last day of school, their classmate Tubby Cooke vanishes. Soon, the group discovers...
| Author | Xun Lu |
| ISBN | 0824813170 |
This collection of short stories by Lu Xun, commonly considered one of the greatest writers in 20th-century China and often referred to as the father of modern Chinese literature, includes the celebrated short story, "A Madman's Diary". This short story is considered to be one of the first and most...
| Author | Lao She |
| ISBN | 0061436925 |
A beautiful new translation of beloved Chinese author Lao She's masterpiece of social realism, about the misadventures of a poor Beijing rickshaw driver
First published in China in 1937, Rickshaw Boy is the story of Xiangzi, an honest and serious country boy who works as a rickshaw puller...
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun
| Author | Xun Lu |
| ISBN | 0140455485 |
Lu Xun (1881—1936) is one of the founding figures of modern Chinese literature. His celebrated short stories assemble a powerfully unsettling portrait of the superstition, poverty, and complacence that he perceived in late-imperial China, and in the revolutionary Republic that toppled the...
| Author | Li Bai |
| ISBN | 0140442723 |
Li Po (AD 701-62) and Tu Fu (AD 712-70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po, a legendary carouser, was an itinerant poet whose writing, often dream poems or spirit-journeys, soars to sublime heights in its descriptions of natural scenes and...
| Author | Wang Wei |
| ISBN | 0811216187 |
Wang Wei (701-761 C.E.) is often spoken of, with his contemporaries Li Po and Tu Fu, as one of the three greatest poets in China's 3,000-year poetic tradition. Of the three, Wang was the consummate master of the short imagistic landscape poem that came to typify classical Chinese poetry. He developed...
| Author | Lao She |
| ISBN | 9629961253 |
Set in an old teahouse in Beijing, the play is typical of Lao She's art that seeks to provide a panoramic view of Chinese history and culture in their transformation from tradition to modernity. Teahouse spans fifty years in modern Chinese history from the collapse of the Qing dynasty and the Republican...
The Witcher Boxed Set: Blood of Elves, The Time of Contempt, Baptism of Fire
| Author | Andrzej Sapkowski |
| ISBN | 0316438979 |
This special boxed set includes the first three novels in Andrzej Sapkowski's New York Times bestselling epic fantasy saga -- the books that introduced the world to THE WITCHER and inspired the hit Witcher video games.
"The universe of Sapkowski's The Witcher is one of the most detailed...
